The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-30
SOUTHERN eLsANlNos.

Ia perfect health, able to attend to his
/ business every day, sleeps as LOod a. q
babe, and can eat at any hour Of the day
| or night
Richard Smith, the little negro boy who
! shot to death baby that he was EN-
ployed to nurse, at Memphis, Tenn, was
/ acquitted. The father of the prisoner
s~ore that he was only seven years old
| and the jury could not hnd 1t In theii
hearts to convict him. The little fellow
slept soundly while the judge was charg
ing the jury, but cried bitterly when the
order was given for his discharges; he
thought discharge meant the gallows.
The Little Rock & Alexandria railtoad
has been organized in Louisiana, with
g. 800, 900 capital stock. The projected
line is over 240 miles long, 12l miles being
in Arkansas. 1t extends from Little
Rock, Ark, to q point on the line be.
tween the States Of Arkansas aud Lousi
ana, near to the dividing line between
range 13 and IA west, and in southern
direction through Louisiana to Alexan-
1 dria.
A phenomenon was lately witnessed by
some Greenville (Ala.) men who were
fishing at a neighboring pond A whirl-
wind or small cyclone, about fifteen feet
|
water up for about two or two and one
half feet for its entire width, then twist
ing it into pillar about foot in diam
eter. This stem was perpendicular for
about six feet, when 1t gradually widened
Until height of about sixty or seventy
feet was attained. The water then fell In
a spray. Those who witnes sed it sag
that the whirlwind formed huge goblet
Of the water, and it was one Of the pret-
test sights they ever saw.
A Palatka Ella. man dug on his place
few days ago a cassava root tn at meas
ured nine feet in length and seven inches
in diameter.
Out of the $50 delegates in the National
Democratic convention Of next year the
Southern States will have 3O6.
A woman at Sparta, Ga, recently had
seventeen teeth extracted in one day and
lied the following night.
There have been fewer murders in
North Carolina so far this year than for
any six months in several years past;
The character of houses in Florida may
be inferred from the statement that one
Orlando contractor has built twenty.one
| cottages in nine weeks.
The large residence of M. v. Monarch,
about quarter of a mile from Owens
boro, KY, was burned few days ago.
Half the household goods were saved.
The loss was about $10 900, with $1,000 in
surance.
Near Wakinsville, Ga, the other day, a
large pine tree which the bees have oc.
cupied for many years was cut down, and
in it was found hollow ,thirty.eight feet
long and eight inches in diameter COM
pletely filled with honey.
No. nhnn nnsrr xu,ha H.
graduated with high honors from the
dental department Of the University of
Tennessee, died few days ago in Nash
| Vile.
A. C. Norton and his son, Richard, shot
and killed j. L. Hamlin, of Abbeyville, s.
c.; few days since, at Parlors Station;
on the Eutauville railroad. Both were
arrested. The cause Of the affray is not
stated.
The Capital City Street railway at
Montgomery, Ala, has begun operating
it's cars by the electric motor system.
The company has four lines, aggregating
| fifteen miles, much of it double track.
The speed attained is from ten to fifteen
miles an hour, one motor pulling three
| loaded cars.
Fire broke out in the upper portion of
F. Frederickson's drug store, in New
Orleans, few days ago. The fire was
confin cd to the drug store, the two upper
stories of which were burned Loss,
s25, 900; believed to be fully covered by
insurance.
The Decatur (Ala.) Natural Gas and
| Oil Company have commenced boring
their well. They have passed their 100
foot mark and are boring rapidly. The
company controls 1900 acres of land.
Work has commenced on the new hotel at
Decatur, and will be rapidly pushed for
ward.
The latest news from Rowan County,
KY, is to the effect that peace has at last
settled permanently within her borders,
and no further trouble is anticipated.
The disposal of the Tolliver gang Is re
garded with the greatest satisfaction,
and is considered as the vindication of
the law at the hands Of an outraged peo.
pie acting by the authority of the Gov
ernor of Kentucky.
At Tangipahoa, La, few nights ago,
Justice of the Peace Varuado was shot
and killed by 8. R. Daughn, whom the
magistrate had recently fined for carry
ing concealed weapons. The tragedy oc-
Cured in a drinking saloon. The mur-
derer was removed to New Orleans to
avoid lynching.
No crime in North Carolina since Wal
ter Bingham murdered Miss burlington
has created any thing like the sensation
caused by the assassination of Paul
Lincke, while in bed at night, by Lawyer
Potts. The crime was committed in
Beaufort County. Potts is in Jail, as is
also Susan F. Lincke, wife of the mur-
iered man. Interest in the case is In
| tense.
Colonel Primus Jones, the great cotton
grower of Southwest Georgia, has sold
his ''first bale" this year to Cole, Simkins
& Co., and guarantees to deliver the same
between July and 10.
Major Seay, prominent and wealthy
planter living near Somerville, Tenn,
luarreled with one of his negro farm
hands named Maclin, few days ago
| over trivial matter, and during the con-
/, troversy Seay drew his revolver and
fred, wounding Maclin. The wounded
man has since died, and Seay has been
arrested, but was released on furnishing
bail
A party of about fifty unmasked, arm ed
men rode into Kosciusko, Miss, a few
nights ago, Overpowered the jailer, broke
open the jail and took James Webb, a
white man, out who was incarcerated on
the charge of poisoning his wife, and
carried him on horseback to a trestle on
the Canton, Aberdeen a. Nashville rail-
| he was hanged with plow line, which
| was tied to the rail on the trestle.
Crops have rarely looked better.
| Milledgeville, Ca, presents her claim
| for the chaplet for the oldest woman in
tha State Julia Mitchall an old neoro